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17 Refuse to listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon, and you will save your lives. Why should this city become a pile of ruins?

18 If they are truly prophets and the word of the Lord is really with them, then they should be pleading with the Lord of hosts that the vessels that remain in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem will not be carried away to Babylon.

19 For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea,[a] the stands, and the rest of the vessels that remain in this city,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 27:19 The sea: the great vessel of water in the temple (see 1 Ki 7:23-25).